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The nursing shortage experience in the US is now coming to its end with the massive creation of nursing websites. This will help encourage more students in the US to take nursing courses. This new website is design also to help nursing graduates find jobs easily.

My-Nursing-Career.com can easily provide list of nursing schools, nursing jobs as well as career advice from nursing professionals who are also experts in the field. There are also other career resources everyone could enjoy when they visit the website to get enough information. It offers all advertised nursing jobs online from three big resources such as HotJobs, Monster and CareerBuilder. This is what will make this website superior from other existing nursing career websites. Students can freely access the site if they too would want to get information about the nursing profession in many parts of the globe. Jeff Morrow, site marketer, said My-Nursing-Career.com is now felt in the worldwide web also provide access that paying employers posted in their website.

Netsurfers and nursing students and professionals can also find:

  • Nursing education news updates
    This means students can also regularly visit the site as they would also provide more updates regarding the nursing profession, giving students more knowledge and resources. The website would soon become a one-stop-shop for everyone – the nursing employers, the schools, the students, the advertisers and especially to the nursing professionals.

  • New information for nursing career offers
    New information for new nursing career offers is also expected in this website soon when it becomes a one-stop-shop for everyone. However, the focus of the website is still in the hot jobs because this is the main goal to provide more career opportunities to nursing professionals.

  • Hottest nursing jobs in the planet
    Of course there would be listing of the hottest nursing careers in the planet for registered nurses. Among the hottest jobs in nursing today include travel nurses, legal nurses, forensic nurses and several others. You just have to click a particular state in the US and other parts of the globe and you can easily find list of available jobs. Of course if there is nursing online degree you can also find online opportunities for nursing jobs. All of these opportunities would become available soon according to reports from sources. This is a commitment the site would like to commit in the next few years as the site grows and become the center for all nursing professionals and students.

The technological innovation of the internet system provides a greater venue for the development of the establishment, businesses, educational setting and other transactions. One of the very evident that it brings to the educational setting here in the United States is the system of online learning. In which, this kind of educational learning been considered as one of the leading system of education in the country. Where in thousands of young learners especially to those individuals who foregoes their higher educational learning prefers to obtain their career education through getting online degree program. In that case, the existence of online education system provides beneficial importance to the educational system in the country especially in foregoing a higher educational learning. No wonder that this online education had been recently used as a gage to combat the nursing shortage concern in the country. In which, the government gives much support to the existence of the nursing online program in the country due to the fact that the shortage is going critical already.

One of the online nursing schools that been considered as the main providers of online nursing education and service is Drexel University Online here in the country. The online nursing education that they offered where entirely based or quite similar to the campus based nursing schools school. The only difference then was the way they taught their learners. In which, the online classes takes place via satellite on the internet and the submission of the requirements was also done online. In that case, the interaction between the teachers and to its fellow learners and unto the accomplishment of its requirements was entirely done through online system. The nursing education of Drexel University provides a greater venue for the county to raise more nurses in the country and strengthen its system. Since, it serves as a gage for the learners who have hectic schedules or financial concerns to have a desired to forego a career in nursing to still do it which helps them a lot to ease up the nursing shortage in the country. At the same time, the online Drexel University provides a two way effect of convenience and advance career for both learners and teachers.

Nursing online degree program had already become quite popular here in the United States in order to provide technological advancement of the nursing schools in the country. No wonder that lots of nursing schools in the country whether private nursing schools or nursing community schools have started their technological expansion over online learning schools. Just like the University of Texas at Arlington’s School of Nursing in which they take partnership with the Baylor Health Care System in order to give an online nursing program for the registered nurses that seeks to attain their Bachelor of Science in nursing. This partnership that have take place is just an example that the country is innovating in terms of giving out nursing educational learning in a technological matter.

This online school services that the University of Texas at Arlington’s School of nursing school offers several career opportunity for the learners to take their nursing educational learning in a convenient way, affordable, and very accessible to everyone. Aside of that also, these online educational services that they have offered allows the working individuals or fulltime workers who want to change their career path to nursing career to still be able to attain it through the online learning system. In that case, the University of Texas at Arlington’s online school provides a greater venue for the individuals who want to forego a nursing career through online without much hassle on their part. Just like the case of Remy Tolentino who is a registered nurse and as well a vice president of the nursing tasks force leadership development for the Baylor Health Care System. Currently, she served as the chief nursing officer of the Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, and according to her that the University of Arlington’s online nursing school serve as a gage for her to enhance or further her nursing career.

Indeed, through the easy accessibility of the online school of the University of Texas; it serves as a gage for several individuals here in Texas to be able to attain a nursing career education without much hassle and with less expense.

One of the best repayment programs for nurses today is the NELRP, an acronym for Nursing Education Loan Repayment Program. This very competitive program repays at least 60 percent of the registered nurses’ loan balance which qualifies for the program, in exchange for the service within two years which is already considered in a facility in critical shortage. The program participants may be considered to work a third year plus 25 percent additional for the loan balance that also qualifies.

NELRP is authorized by the Public Health Service Act based on Section 846 to assist in performing retention as well as recruitment of professional nurses that are serving underserved communities.

The program for registered nurses is now applied by many professionals as the student loan repayment is up to 60 percent of the loan balance that qualify. This means this is now one of the very effective programs for nursing professionals which have problems on repayment of their students loans while still in college. It is also an answer to the problems which is long been kept by professionals because of no available programs which can help them solve their loan repayment problems.

Registered nurses eligible to apply for the NELRP should meet the following requirements:

  1. Graduate of a baccalaureate or associate degree in nursing from an accredited state’s school of nursing.

  2. Have a loan in college which can qualify for the program leading to a diploma in nursing education

  3. Finished a nursing program in which the loan balance applies

  4. Should be a US citizen, national who resides in the US

  5. Should be employed full time in a facility considered on critical shortage

  6. Should be employed in a facility considered as non-profit

  7. Have a permanent nursing license in the US as registered nurse especially at the state he wants to practice profession.

  8. Submitted an application for NELRP and also signed the NELRP contract, forms and other documentation required.

To be able to encourage more nurses a foundation is now offering two scholarship grants each year in Texas. This is their commitment of helping others succeed by taking nursing education.

The Alice Pyle and Mary Meyer Memorial Scholarship Foundation announced that each nursing education scholar will be receiving at least $2,000 for the whole year. This is already enough to finance their education in private schools. Lauren Murphy and Kelly Shields, both residents of Virginia, received their scholarship checks last September 9, 2008 at the Town Center City Club.

Dr. Pamela Pyle, gynecologist and obstetrician at Virginia Beach, said this project is really a wonderful tribute to their mothers since the scholarship will be helping children to pursue their dreams to become professional nurses in the future. It was learned that in 1970 Pamela’s mother, Alice Pyle met her new found friend Mary Meyer. They were then volunteer nurses who helped in outreach programs of the Virginia Beach Health Clinic.

Meyer died in 1994 of Lung cancer while she was then a nursing supervisor at a general hospital in Sentara. She died at the age of 60. The scholarship fund was established in her honor. Then two years later, Pamela’s mother, also died. Fortunately, with the approval and Meyer family blessing Alice Pyle was included in the foundation. In 1995, the foundation initially awarded scholarship grants to qualified students wanting to pursue nursing education. At the moment there are already 22 recipients who received a total amount scholarship of at least $39,000.

Scholar Kelly Shields who lives in Princess Anne is a manager of the recovery room in Virginia Beach General Hospital and is currently studying at Regent University with a course on organizational leadership and management.

She said she is blessed to have been awarded the foundation’s student financial aid – and she also believes this is a great help for her to be able to continue her studies in nursing. In 1995, Shields graduated from high school at Kempsville High School and since then worked at the hospital in Virginia. She said she really enjoy her current course in management as her nursing perspective has great influence as far as her approach to administration.

On the other hand, scholar Lauren Murphy is currently enrolled at James Madison University. She also received the $2,000 scholarship grant from the foundation.

During the awarding ceremony, her mother Lynn Murphy received the grant in behalf of her daughter who was having an important affair at her school. Her mother was also a former nurse at a hospital in Virginia. In fact, she took care of the late Mary Meyer while she was still treated with cancer.

The different local government officials here in United States are working out to investing much effort in creating several programs that will improve the nursing condition of the country especially right now that the country is as stake shortage that had happened in the nursing field and according to the Health Resources and Services Administration, it was expected that the shortage situation will worsen to one million loss of nurses by 2020 if the government will not take its immediate action in resolving this nursing shortage concern here in the country. As a result, around two-thirds or more state have allocated their funding in order to be used for the nursing shortage concerns in the country. The funding primarily focuses on the nursing educational improvement of the country.

The government gives much emphasis on improving the nursing education of the country. Since, it is the main source of gaining knowledge and skills in order to produce a quality output in the nursing system of the country. At the same, strengthening the nursing education program especially for getting a higher education will be a gage for producing high quality of nursing individuals in the country that can combat nursing shortage and any other nursing concerns that may arise. Since, it had been seen that most of the nurses in the country are usually foregoing their career employment to the different hospitals or healthcare institutions in the country leaving only few individuals a choice to forego a higher nursing education in order to become nursing instructors. As a result, the government is providing several funds to expand the nursing scholarship and loan forgiveness programs to those nursing learners or nurses who are willing to forego their nursing higher career education.

The government had seen that through this programs and funding will become a gage to strengthen the nursing education system of the country and produce quality nurses that will really dedicate to serve the country‘s healthcare system. Since, attaining or training the nursing instructors is one of the important aspects that the government officials can ever done in order to fight the deterioration of nursing system in the country. Despite that they are only few nurses that will be left but still they can still be able to provide a quality services due to the trainings or learning’s that they have from their quality nursing instructors who become a prime mover in their learning growth.